28-year-old man arrested in nearby field

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A Frisco woman says she is thankful to be alive after a man put a gun to her head and stole her purse Friday.

The woman, who did not want to be identified, said the robbery happened in front of her daughter as they pulled into their apartment garage after grocery shopping.

On the 911 call, the woman tells the dispatcher what happened.

"I was just robbed at gunpoint," the victim told the operator when she called 911. "My daughter was standing outside, and the guy came up to me, and I was talking on the phone, and he put a gun to my head and said, 'Give me your purse now.'"

In the 911 call, the woman said the man tried to cover her eyes.

"He put his hands over my eyes and he goes, 'Give me your, give me your purse now.' And I went, 'What?'" she said. "And I turned to him, and he let his hands down, and I saw him perfectly."

The woman told NBC 5 she is a teacher and that pays attention to detail. Her description of the suspect helped police catch the man a few hundred yards away in a field.

"Blond hair, short blond hair, black jogging suit, black cap on -- I think he had a black gun -- short kind of a Magnum kind of thingamajigs, not an old-fashioned one -- like a semi-automatic or something," she said during the 911 call. "He was good-looking, young. I say he's maybe in his early 20s."